Wallpaper Engine causing fans to kick on

[blackoutb3]

So I picked up wallpaper engine a few weeks ago and everytime I try it, it kicks on my computer fans. I have an alienware R9 with a Geoforce RTX 2070 Super. I run other programs like Rhino, AutoCAD without my fans kicking on so why should this? When I open task manager, the stats appear unchanged. GPU spikes up for about a min but then drops back down to 0%. Am I missing something? Thanks.

[Biohazard]

Hi. Please share this log while the program is running/you are having this issue: https://help.wallpaperengine.io/en/debug/scantool.html

[Biohazard]

Thanks. This is a desktop, right? I only quickly googled alienware R9 and it seems to be a desktop, but according to the log you have your integrated GPU is enabled as well which shouldn't be done on desktops.

Do you currently have a monitor plugged into it too? Please make sure all monitors are plugged into your dedicated GPU and that your integrated GPU is completely disabled (turn it off in the BIOS to be sure).

Currently Norton and Nahimic are manipulating Wallpaper Engine. I don't believe that they have anything to do with this particular issue, but due to the nature of what these programs do it would be best to make sure they don't manipulate Wallpaper Engine, please exclude it from them. I.e. by excluding wallpaper32.exe from the installation directory or even the entire path to the installation directory.

You could also update your graphics drivers to version 457.51, it looks like your current driver is quite a bit older. But please make sure to not install 460 or 461. Those have numerous confirmed bugs Nvidia is still working on fixing including a bug that crashes Wallpaper Engine with multiple monitors in use.

If none of this helps, did you check the CPU/GPU use for Wallpaper Engine only or for the entire system? If your fans become louder then it should be due to higher CPU/GPU like you guessed. If you know which fans become louder exactly you could also determine which component is the source. Your current settings of the program are really light so I wouldn't expect any notable use.

Perhaps also double check that neither Windows GameBar nor Nvidia Share are constantly recording the wallpaper and pushing your GPU to constantly encode video data.